WerkBench

$ well spent! This combo sampler looper has a very powerful set of features packed into its one panel interface. Running on a ipad air1 it has not crashed once. Rock solid. Ability to import sounds and cut out clips is awesome. Imported a buncha iMS20 sounds to mess with. Filters sound real dirty and nasty. Delay is also very flex. Super intuitive to get weird polyrhythms and non trad beats running and evolving. Saving sound sets and then switching on the fly works great. Have not yet tried using with a dedicated ipad audio/midi interface. As far as midi, I am unclear how and what can be controlled. Apparently the developer is good about answering questions... Compared to loopy, Werkbench is immediately more gratifying especially for rhythmic stuff.

Been using this app for the last year and love it. The sampling is painless, and instant. You can fill up the 16 steps in the time it takes to make 16 sounds. The stuff you can make reminds me of weird little tape loops from the 60s, like the Radiophonic workshop or Simon & Garfunkel's"Cecilia". One really special thing that makes the loops interesting, is how easy it is to make variations of samples for the different beats, rather than replaying the same sample over and over. You can make each one a little different, and it sounds different and less robotic than just using one sample over and over. Solid performance for me on ipad air ios8.3. Hasn't crashed once. Edit: Outstanding update to v3.0. Automation works great, scales for the pitch work a treat, nice look to the controls. Like the reverb and crush. No issues, on ipad air ios 10.3

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And not in a good way. This seems like an otherwise well written and creative app...but...and it’s a huge but, you import sounds by importing them into the app and replaying them and resampling onto a pad! Why?! Why wouldn’t you just pick a pad and have the sample loaded into it? Why on earth would u load a sound only to resample it using threshold recording!? I’m still honestly speechless as to why the dev would do this. It’s an extra step that is so easily avoided. How about pick a pad, import sample to pad...done. I never write reviews but this aggravated me so bad and it’s just a shame because otherwise the app seems to have had a lot of work put into it but this is the most simple thing and to get that wrong is just astounding. ( also it has echo on the import sample slot as well but you can’t use it..it’s there for ‘fun’ according to the manual...absolutely pointless)

This app is just fantastic! Very well designed and thought out, you'll be making fun grooves in no time. Any style of music can be created / performed with this excellent sampler-sequencer. With overdub mode, you can layer on top of your existing samples and really compose some sweet stuff. Save your songs, copy & paste samples and entire patterns...Worth every penny!

Has been a favorite for years, and contains more features and deeper depths than I have ever been able to fully learn. A fantastic tool that will let you unleash your creativity while sampling your world. Get this. Seriously. Just spend the seven dollars, and you will not regret it!